La orfandad en la Muerte

Abstract

This work tackles the way in which our society faces death. It is considered that the most common attitude is trying to control and rule al1 the events around it in order to turn it into an aseptic event, free of anguishes, emotions, pains and defense that accompanies it; this is achieved through medication or institutionalization of this experience. So the experience of death is carefully guided by social institutions since one's birth. The process conditions during the trajectory and the end are always imposed and oversingnified. The result of this inherently human experience is divested of its natural dignity. The sense of life evaporates at the moment of dying because a person finishes by losing his identity while moving through the institutional mazes that condemn him to anonymity. However, one way or another it is the proximity of this event that can help us to recover the authenticity and to think once more about fundamental questions regarding human nature.